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  • 2022-01-14 (xsd:date)
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  • it is noticeable that she never said the sentence that way then. It remains unclear whether an extra interview was given for the UNFCCC article or whether the quote is an adaptation for journalistic purposes. However (en)
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  • As climate change becomes ever more apparent, calls for action and consistent measures are multiplying. Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), says as part of the launch of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report (EGR21) that to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, we have eight years to nearly halve greenhouse gas emissions. This statement is correct, even if it is the least we can do. Six days before the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UNEP released the 2021 Emissions Gap Report in a high-level online press conference with UN Secretary-General António Guterres and UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen. The report’s contents are striking: all current climate pledges combined with other mitigation actions would result in global temperature rising by 2.7 degrees by the end of the century. This would be far beyond the goals of the Paris Agreement and would have catastrophic consequences in the Earth’s climate. After the report was published, a quote from Inger Andersen travelled around the world: To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C (en)
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